SOLD Henrietta Work's Very Wonderful Work! Mid 19th C. Box with Painted Interior Lid and Drawer mouths woven splint sides

woven splint sides

which makes me think of the roaring twenties about to run into the impossibility of the Great Depression

For me part of the fun is that it is also a sort of a puzzle

All the better for the what looks like a blood dripping from his forehead and a larger splotch of it on his chest

SOLD Henrietta Work's Very Wonderful Work! Mid 19th C. Box with Painted Interior Lid and Drawer mouths woven splint sidesPure love for this box, one of those things that just had to be mine, and which I'll be glad to live with for the rest of my life. And I like it all the more for its humble exterior which does little suggest the rich joys of its interior life! Likely painted when Henrietta was just a school girl, proudly spelling out her full name in block letters between rainbow like arcs of color (and what an excellent name, seeming also to describe her efforts here